Britain’s online p2p TV
p2pnet.net news:- The BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 are said to be working on an online p2p television service with Joost-like characteristics.
It’d be a “one-stop shop” for on-demand TV, aiming to consolidate various media players and on-demand services. It would be online, built on the same p2p basis as the iPlayer, but destined to ultimately become a digital TV service, says Guardian Unlimited.
Called “Project Kangaroo,” it would also be open to other channels and the terrestrial broadcasters hope it’ll do for broadband, “what Freeview did for digital television,” says the story, going on, “It is expected to operate like Joost, perhaps hinting at some P2P element.”
The Digital Television Group, a coalition which controls Freeview, is apparently interested in loading Project Kangaroo software into set-top boxes, “to allow maximum penetration,” says Guardian Unlimited, pointing out this would put it in direct competition with BT’s Freeview/on-demand offering, Vision, as well as with Sky and Virgin Media.
“The Kangaroo trio all already have individual on-demand players,” says the story: Channel 4 has 4OD, the of ITV’s 30-day catch up service is imminent, and the BBC has been working on iPlayer for three years.
Also See:
Guardian Unlimited – Project Kangaroo: logical for web TV consolidation?, June 14, 2007
iPlayer – BBC Trust iPlayer decision, May 1, 2007
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June 17th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
This type of service baffles me in the UK; ISPs are tightening the noose on their subscribers and putting in place more and more restrictive caps and FUPs (Fair Use Policy: for those not in the UK this means they apply a limit at which they throttle your connection to dial up speeds but don’t tell you what the limit, and in many cases claim the product is unlimited in their advertising blurb and the signup page, so the first you know of the FUP is when you breach it) so that most people won;t be able to use the service even if they wanted to.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I agree with the above comment, However I think it will be difficult to police everyones pipe to see if they are taking part in p2p activity. FilesWire.com is an online Browser-Based p2p service that works directly from a browser; the beauty of the system is that you could visit a pc which is not yours (work, college, uni, friends) and share from that pc. By splitting up your p2p file sharing amongst multiple pcs, it will be more difficult for isp to effectively quantify your exact bandwith usage